Happy Days: Season 1 episode guide
1974 (16 episodes)
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#1
Richie is set up with Mary Lou Milligan, a girl with a reputation, by Potsie.
Ralph Malph shows everyone at Arnold's his hickey. Potsie gives Richie a Mickey Spillane book,
I the Jury, and sets Richie up with Mary Lou Milligan, a girl who has a repuation who
looks like Bridget Bardot. Richie reads some of the book to Mary
Lou at Arnold's. Mary Lou tells Richie he looks like Pat Boone. Potsie
brings a bra to help Richie practice unhooking it, and Fonzie comes and
unsnaps it off the radiator in the restroom. Richie goes to Mrs. Kelly's,
where Mary Lou is babysitting, and goes through his pre-planned
routine. The next day, Richie brags to everyone at a baseball game.
Richie later tells her what he did, and later Fonzie sets up
a date with Mary Lou.
Directed by: Mel Ferber
Written by: Rob Reiner, Philip Mishkin, and Garry Marshall
Guest stars: Gavan O'Herlihy as Chuck, Kathy O'Dare as Mary Lou,
Danny Jacobson as Pat, and Richard D. Hurst as cook.
#2- The Lemon (1/22/74)
Richie and Potsie team up their money to buy a convertible in order to impress two girls.
Ralph comes in his red convertible to Arnold's and picks up Betty and Trudy and offers to take them home. Richie and Potsie think about combining their money to buy a car to take to the sock hop. Richie has $100 and Potsie has $75. They buy a white car with an eagle as a hood ornament. Howard goes in the car to start the engine and falls back in the seat (Nash seat). They wait to they close Arnold's and then push the car back home later that evening. Fonzie comes over and repairs the car and takes the eagle ornament. They return from the sock hop and go to the lake to see the "submarine races". Betty Wilkin's father calls and talks to Howard. Howard goes to Arnold's and talks with Fonzie. The car goes into the lake when Richie and Potsie let go of it. Fonzie buys the car for $25, drys it out, and then sells it to Otto's Auto's Orphanage for $50.
Directed by: Jerry Paris
Written by: Dick Bensfield & Perry Grant
Guest stars: Tita Bell as Trudy, Cindy Eilbacher as Betty, and
Betty Wilkins' father (uncredited).
Potsie takes Richie to a wild bachelor party.
Richie and Ralph set up a mannequin in Bert's car and scare a waitress. The waitress goes to the car and the mannequin's head falls off. Richie is invited to Potsie's cousin's, Arnold Drysdale who is in the Marines and is returning from Korea, bachelor/stag party at the Crystal Hotel. Richie and Potsie are given some adult playing cards by Duke. They drink some olive oil, imported from Spain and that Potsie got from the kitchen, to get ready for the drinking games. The drinking game is called "Sloppy Sixty". Verna LaVerne comes out of a cake and entertains. Verna gives Richie a ride home in her pickup truck (with the cake in the back of the truck). Howard comes down and meets Verna. Richie invites Verna over for dinner Sunday night at 8 o'clock. Richie comes home with a hangover after having 72 teenie-weenie glasses of beer.
Directed by: Jerry Paris
Written by: William S. Bickley & Bob Brunner
Guest stars: Louisa Moritz as Verna LaVerne, Lennie Weinrib as Duke, Gavan O'Herlihy as Chuck, Tim
Haldeman as Arnold, Beatrice Colen as waitress, and Tom Harris as Vince.
Richie and Potsie go out to watch Fonzie at a midnight drag race.
Ralph shows up in his yellow dragster which Fonzie fixed up. Skizzy Scarlik challenges Ralph Malph to a drag race at 7:00 at Airport Road. Fonzie decides that he will drive the car in the race. Potsie stays over at the Cunninghams while his parents are in Atlantic City. The drag race is changed to midnight when Fonzie has problems with the tires. The Cunninghams and company watch some of The Untouchables on television. Richie and Potsie sneak out of the window to go to the drag race. Fair and impartial Richie is selected to start the race by dropping a white flag. Richie is stopped by Howard and then the cops show up and everyone runs off. Everyone is brought into the police's office for questioning. Howard grounds Richie for life and then changes it to two weeks. Everyone leaves Arnold's at 5:30 (because they are grounded) except for two kids (Moose and a girl) who dance at the end.
Directed by: Jerry Paris
Written by: Mark Rothman & Lowell Ganz
Guest stars: Herb Voland as Sergeant, Alan Abelew as Skizzy, Gavan O'Herlihy
as Chuck, Laura Michaels as Jean (Skizzy's girlfriend), Beatrice Colen
as Marsha, Julie Graham as the cheerleader, Barry Greenberg as Moose,
and Carey Williams as Moose's girl.
Richie watches the hardware store instead of going to a rock concert.
A waitress brings Moose some of his food, and the salt shaker is set to spill over the place. Potsie invites Gloria Hofstetter, Arlene's best friend, to the Rock 'n Roll Show. Richie tries to get tickets, but they are all sold out. Fonzie already sold his tickets to Iggy Wilson. Fonzie says he can get more for six bucks. Howard has a sore throat and eventually gives Richie the money. Dr. McKay comes to the house and checks Howard out. Howard has to have his tonsils taken out. Mr. Fenster is on vacation and Richie offers to take care of the hardware store on Saturday. Richie gives the tickets back to Fonzie for a refund. Richie then buys the tickets back, and Fonzie gives Richie a $1 for popcorn. Richie and Potsie get stuck in the store when Richie leaves the keys on the outside of the front door and Potsie allows the door to close. Richie breaks the glass door with his foot trying to get out through a small window at the top of the door. Richie stays at the store and listens to the concert on the radio.
Directed by: Jerry Paris
Written by: Frank Buxton and Micahel Leeson
Guest stars: Tita Bell as Trudy, George Ives as Dr. McKay, Peter Brocco
as Mr. Egan (the patient in Howard's room), Robert Casper as customer, Richard
Doran as Bert, and Barry Greenberg as Moose.
Richie and Potsie have to fulfill six dares to earn their jackets when they try to become members of the Demons.
Richie and Potsie think about joining the Demons after a girl goes out with Bag. Potsie tries to start Fonzie's bike. Mr. C. and Joanie do a paint by the number painting of Napoleon. Richie and Potsie are accepted, but must do the six Deadly Dares. First, Potsie makes a prank phone call. Then Richie and Potsie kiss Marsha. Later, they put on ski masks and wear roller skates and pull off Mr. Crenshaw's toupee. They sing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" at a 3D movie where the Cunningham family is watching. They tie a police officer's shoelaces together who falls on Marsha. For the final dare, they go to a dance dressed as girls. Fonzie dances with Richie while Ralph dances with Potsie. Eventually, they decide against joining the Demons.
Directed by: Herb Wallerstein
Written by: Steven Zacharias
Guest stars: Ed Begley, Jr. as Hank, Jack Riley as O'Reilly, Gavan O'Herlihy
as Chuck, Beatrice Colen as Marsha, Neil J. Schwartz as Bag, Lou Tiano
as Rocky, and John Wheeler as Mr. Crenshaw.
Fonzie re-enrolls in high school, but wants Richie to do all of his homework.
Richie and company play some basketball at school. Potsie gets a B+ on his history exam. Fonzie thinks about re-enrolling in high school after he looks at Potsie's test. Miss Pratt gives everyone a pop quiz and Fonzie makes an appearance. Fonzie rearranges all of the seating plan to get the right atmosphere. Fonzie gives Richie his homework to do it for him. Richie offers to teach Fonzie for his history exam. Later, Richie invites Fonzie over for dinner and to study. Fonzie takes Howard's normal seat at the table. They work on a secret code for the true/false exam in Richie's room. Richie decides that he can't help Fonzie cheat even though he is his friend. Fonzie uses a crib sheet on a girl's sweater, and has his notes taped outside the window before they are damaged by a pigeon. Fonzie passes with a 66 then goes to the principal's office and drops out once again. Fonzie thinks about throwing away the exam, but decides to keep it and folds it up and puts it in his jacket pocket.
Directed by: Mel Ferber
Written by: Bob Brunner & William S. Bickley
Guest stars: Jessica Myerson as Miss Pratt, Tita Bell as Trudy, Stuart
Nisbet as Mr. Faraday, Jean Fraser as Sandy, Richard Doran as kid.
Richie and Potsie use false identity cards to get into a burlesque show.
Ralph tells everyone about seeing Bubbles McCall at a burlesque show at Eddie's Pink Parlor. Richie receives a call from Mrs. C. to get some groceries (a loaf of rye bread and t.p.). Pockets (wearing a Yankees cap), Fonzie, and Potsie come over to the house. Pockets makes Potsie a fake ID card. Mrs. C. brinngs up some milk and cookies to the room. Richie asks Chuck for his draft ID card, but it is already loaned out to Bobby Gazari. Richie's card is Joe Kilvinski who is 25. They get in the show when a new ticket checker takes over for his boss. They order a few beers to cover the minimum. Once they get inside, they are more than a little surprised to see Mr. Cunningham at the show with his business associate Fred Hingle. Later, Richie and Potsie find out that Bubbles doesn't take it all off as Ralph had earlier told them. Howard brings Richie home his souvenir (a white glove) and grounds him for a week. At the end of the show, they pull the same stunt on another guy as Ralph Malph had done to them.
Directed by: Mel Ferber
Written by: William S. Bickley
Guest stars: Barbara Rhoades as Bubbles McCall, Gavan O'Herlihy as Chuck,
Arthur Batanides as Eddie, Lee Paul as Mory, Beatrice Colen as Marsha,
Billy Sands as the waiter, and Frank Sivero as Pockets.
Richie and Arlene split up only to discover that it's too late to line up other dates for the prom.
Richie and Arlene Holder argue about why he was late with other friends supporting their own sides. They decide to break up after seeing each other for two weeks and Arlene gives Richie his ring back to him. The Cunninghams talk about tuxedos and the upcoming prom at the dinner table. Richie and Arlene soon discover that neither of them can get another date, and Richie offers to give her a lift to the Jefferson High School Teen Angel prom. Mrs. McCarthy substitutes for Mrs. Gavin and babysits Joanie. They take some pictures before they leave for the prom. Howard and Marion check out some of the make-out sites from Hot Lips McDonald's list. Howard dances with the 72 year old Mrs. Frawley and Fonzie asks Mrs. C. to dance. Arlene dances with several guys (including Potsie and Ralph) and makes Richie jealous. Fonzie's date, Sandy Howser, is crowned Miss Teen Angel. Arlene is named Miss runner-up and dances with Richie. Fonzie and Sandy drive around Teen Heaven in their "cloud". Howard and Marion dance at the end to conclude the show.
Directed by: Jerry Paris
Written by: William S. Bickley
Guest stars: Laurette Spang as Arlene, Reta Shaw as Mrs. McCarthy,
Beatrice Colen as Marsha, Tita Bell as Trudy, and Jean Fraser as Sandy.
Richie and his friends set out to conquer their financial woes as a rock 'n roll band.
Richie is working at Arnold's while Richie and Potsie think about how they can make some money. Richie, Potsie, and Ralph form a band in order to earn some extra money. They practice in the garage and play the song All Shook Up with Fonzie critiquing them. Potsie later comes over in a werewolf mask while the Cunninghams play Monopoly at the kitchen table. Richie and the gang are able to get a gig at a college frat party for $11.25 each. After cleaning up the house, they lose $50 playing some poker. They lose by the Hoboken Hustle with a marked set of cards. "Chips" (Howard) Cunningham and Richie go back over to the Zena Phi house to win back their money. Howard lets them win every hand and then at the end uses his own deck of cards to play fair and square. They return to the house early the next morning, and Howard has to go to a Father/Daughter Junior Chipmunk outing with Joanie when he arrives home.
Directed by: Jerry Paris
Written by: Dick Bensfield & Perry Grant
Guest stars: Bruce Kimmel as Murf, Gavan O'Herlihy as Chuck, Richard Rasof as Animal,
Neil J. Schwartz as Bag, Don Carter as Brian, and Ding Dingle as waitress.
Richie reluctantly agrees to go on a blind date with a girl who towers over him.
Potsie talks about possibly setting up Richie on a blind date. Richie plays some pinball at Arnold's while Fonzie alters the score and Richie wins a free game. Richie is set up with Susan Denton's cousin, Phyllis. Richie is surprised when she towers over him in her Statue of Liberty costume. Richie goes to the party as a prince, Potsie as Daniel Boone, Ralph in a Superman-like costume, and Fonzie as Marlon Brando (in his same white shirt and leather jacket). Howard and Marion play bridge with Harry and Hazel upstairs while the party is going on in the basement. While Fonzie, Potsie, and Ralph take their dates to the lake, Richie takes Phyllis on a tour of the city. Richie's car (loaned by Potsie/it is Potsie's parents car) runs out of gas and Fonzie stops and gives them a few drops of gas. They use Phyllis' torch to pour the gas into the car. Richie gets home at 2am in the morning, and is told on by Joanie to Howard.
Directed by: Peter Baldwin
Written by: Jack Winter
Guest stars: Diana Canova as Phyllis, Beatrice Colen as Marsha, Gracia Lee as Hazel,
Mike Monahan as Harry, Karen Duitsman as Susan, Barry Greenberg as Moose, and
Sheena (Fonzie's date) (uncredited).
Potsie and Ralph want to date Cindy Shellenberger, while Cindy only wants Richie as a tutor.
Potsie makes himself a ketchup freeze at Arnold's. Ralph and Potsie both tell Richie they are in love with Cindy Shellenberger, the new girl in school who was Wycliffe's homecoming queen, the prom queen, and Miss Sapling and is a little older because she missed some school because she travled through Europe with her military father. She wants Richie to tutor her for English and Biology classes at the Cunningham house. Richie sets up the chairs in the living room and Potsie drops by for a visit. Later, they move up to Richie's room to study. Richie kisses Cindy and then the next night he takes her to the Half Moon drive-in theater. Richie asks Cindy to go steady, but she doesn't hear "My Prayer" by The Platters. Richie writes "I love you" for Cindy the next day on a sidewalk by drawing an eye, a heart, and an ewe (female sheep). Richie goes to a tattoo parlor to get a tattoo to impress Cindy. Howard comes to the parlor and stops Richie's plan. Fonzie draws a fish with a hook on Richie's arm. Cindy tells Richie at the end they can still be friends.
Directed by: Don Weis
Written by: Jack Winter
Guest stars: Mary Cross as Cindy, Dick Balduzzi as Joe, and Robert Karvel as man.
Richie helps a stranded beatnik who is pregnant.
Richie walks into a movie and asks a girl named Deidre, a female beatnik, if the next to her is taken. She is reading Warts on My Soul , a poetry book. Fonzie looks at her car which broke down. Richie invites her to dinner. She faints at the table when Howard asks her to pass the roast beef to him. She stays in Chuck's room, which is a basketball shrine. Richie reads her some of his poetry and then Deidre tells him that she is pregnant. Richie goes to the Purple Eagle where Deidre's boyfriend is a bongo player. He meets Lawrence at the beatnik hangout. The Cunninghams and Diedre play Monopoly on the floor. Deidre makes a jelly bean and egg sandwich. Potsie and Ralph come in beret-like caps and dark sunglasses to the Purple Eagle. Richie joins Deidre and all of her beatnik friends the next morning at the garage and wants to learn about life. Richie soon learns that Deidre and Lawrence are not going on the trip, and he returns to the Cunningham house.
Directed by: Jerry Paris
Story by: Peggy Elliott and Ed Scharlach
Guest stars: Udana Power as Deidre, Danny Goldman as Lawrence,
Beatrice Colen as Marsha, and Valerie Curtin as poetess.
The neighbors are upset when the Cunninghams invite an African-American couple to be married in their home.
Howard brings his old army buddy, Fred Washington, home for a visit before Fred gets married. They have dinner and Fred asks Howard to be his best man. Mrs. Finley comes to use the phone and meets Fred, who is black, in the kitchen. Marion thinks she may be prejudiced when she talks to Howard before they go to bed. Howard and Fred visit Mr. Davis, his future father-in-law and current undertaker, to discuss the wedding plans. Marion suggests they have the wedding at their house. Later that night, Officer Kincaid brings Fred to the door after he thinks he is a prowler. A Reverend Dawson stops by as Richie and Fonzie are setting up chairs for the wedding the next day. Marion and Richie try to entertain (they sing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat") while Fred gets the jitters and shoots some baskets. Fred and Carol are eventually married. Mr. Davis and Marion play the piano at the end, and Howard gives Fonzie $5 for moving the chairs out of the house.
Directed by: Jerry Paris
Written by: Joel Kane
Guest stars: Robert Do Qui as Fred, Bill Henderson as Mr. Davis, Gail Bryant Cameron
as Carol, Anzie Strickland as Mrs. Finley, Wonderful Smith as Reverend,
and Edward Marshall as Officer Kincaid.
Richie wants to join the Dukes, until they steal Potsie's bike.
Ralph tries to pull a prank on Marsha by putting his finger with ketchup on it in a little box to make it look like a dead finger. A local gang, the Dukes, comes into Arnold's and Frankie Molina is looking for a red-headed kid who was on their turf. He comes to thank Richie for walking home his little sister who was being picked on by some other kids. Mr. and Mrs. C. clean out some garbage cans in the driveway. Potsie's bike is stolen by the Dukes. Richie goes over to the Pool Hall to see Frankie and meets Squirt. Richie identifies Potsie's blue bike (now painted red), with a squirrel's tail, and a nameplate on the back of the bike. The Jefferson High's mascot (a duck) shows up without the football team. Frankie returns from his job as an usher at the Bijou Theatre. Potsie leaves a threatening note and they get ready to fight before Fonzie shows up with his pals to play some pool. The Dukes leave peacefully and Potsie pays Fonzie $4 for some games of pool and drinks for the boys. Howard buys a $8.50 color converter for the television at the end, and the family tries to watch the tv.
Directed by: Jerry Paris
Written by: Ben Joelson & Art Bear
Guest stars: Darrell Fetty as Frankie, Manuel Padilla, Jr. as Squirt, Beatrice
Colen as Marsha, Tom Ruben as Milton, and Herbie Faye as Pop.
The Cunninghams decide to build a family bomb shelter and try to keep it a secret.
Howard announces that there will be a family meeting. They discuss whether they have enough funds for a bomb shelter and Howard mentions that they could dip into their funds for their vacation to Carlsbad Caverns. A salesman, named Ernie, comes to sell them a bomb shelter. He hands brochures out to all of the family members. He calls Howard-Herbert and Marion-Margaret and several other names. The waitresses at Arnold's are wearing roller skates and falling down. Richie says he will save Potsie a spot in the bomb shelter. Richie tells Carole Akron about the bomb shelter in order to get a date with her to the Rock 'N Roll Show. Richie and Carole talk about the bomb shelter in his car. When they have a drill, all of their friends show up to use it. Everyone turns against Howard, and votes against the bomb shelter.
Directed by: Jerry Paris
Written by: Richard Morgan
Guest stars: Ronnie Schell as Ernie, Christina Hart as Carole, Beatrice Colen
as Marsha, and Jean Fraser as girl.
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